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Zac Padgett

Partner

Portland

Zac helps clients buy and sell businesses and negotiate investments. He counsels technology and life sciences companies involved in M&A and investment activity, including public corporations, private equity firms and their portfolio companies and tech startups.

Zac advises clients in mergers, buyout acquisitions, growth equity transactions, corporate venture capital investments, SPAC business combinations, take-private transactions, management takeovers, joint ventures, private placements and preferred stock financings.

Zac's experience includes:

  • Tech company sales, acquisitions and mergers
  • SPACs
  • Take-privates
  • Industrial firm acquisitions and mergers
  • Convertible note and preferred stock financing rounds
  • Bank and insurance company acquisitions
  • Intellectual property transfers
  • Joint development agreements and partnerships
  • Board and executive advice and guidance

  • Prior to joining Orrick, Zac was a member of the M&A team at K&L Gates in Portland, and prior to that, a member of the financial institution transactions team at Skadden in New York. Zac's prior experience also includes a stint at an independent law firm in Portland where he counseled founders and growth-stage companies.

    Zac enjoys bicycle tours on the West coast and commuting to the Portland office by bike.

    • Eleven Software in the sale of its business to Ven Capital
    • SOC Telemed in its take-private transaction with Patient Square Capital, LP
    • Volley Inc. in its acquisition of Matchbox.io
    • PCF Insurance Services in its leveraged equity management buyout
    • Endeavour Capital in their acquisition of Forrest Machining, a California based manufacturer and supplier of aerospace machinery
    • Routeware in its acquisition of ReCollect
    • The Gap in the sale of Janie & Jack
    • Central Garden & Pet in its acquisition of DoMyOwn
    • SOC Telemed in its acquisition of Access Physicians
    • The Gap in the sale of Intermix
    • Toyota in its investment in Joby Aviation
    • Qualifacts in its acquisition of Credible
    • SOC Telemed in its SPAC transaction
    • APDM Wearable Technologies in the sale of its business to ERT
    • Trax in its acquisition of Survey
    • Routeware in its acquisition of Core Computing Solutions
    • Last Mile in its acquisition of Gotcha Mobility
    • Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of Qualifacts
    • LINQ in its acquisition of SRC Solutions
    • Cloudpipes in the sale of its business to Quick Base
    • Mercy Corps as a founding member of the Libra Association
    • Trax in its acquisition of Shopkick
    • Routeware in its acquisition of RouteOptix
    • Redshift in the sale of its business to Maxon
    • XCOM in its acquisition of M87
    • iCracked in the sale of its business to Allstate
    • Janrain in the sale of its business to Akamai
    • Hemex Health in its Series A financing
    • Applied Materials in its Series B investment in Spin Memory
    • Reserve in the sale of its business to Resy
    • American Building Supply in the sale of its business to Jeld-Wen
    • Warburg Pincus in its investment in Duetto
    • Aptean in its acquisition of Connect
    • AssetPoint in the sale of its business to Aptean
    • OpenCar in the sale of its business to INRIX
    • Custom Credit Systems in the sale of its business to Misys Software Solutions
    • OIA Global in its acquisition of U.S. Worldwide Logistics
    • Vigor Industrial in its acquisitions of Oregon Iron Works, Kvichak Marine Industries and Seward Ship’s Drydock
    • Heidi Ho Organics in its Series A financing round
    • Mobile Tech in its agreements with Vodafone, Walmart and AT&T

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